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Oh wow, I can't even get a latte with that...
One of the biggest data breaches of all time and they payout is next to nothing. People who lost real money due to identity theft, paid to freeze their credit, bought credit monitoring services or any combination of all 3 are only getting a very small fraction of their money back with this settlement.
And a for profit company and the lawyers are who made out big here. The settlement was the largest in history for data breaches, but the courts allocated something like 90% of the funds to providing "credit monitoring" services and not cash reimbursements. Credit monitoring services which weren't even provided by the settlement until 3 years after the breach was disclosed. And the terms of the settlement was to either take the free credit monitoring services, or file a claim for reimbursements for your losses or expenses you paid for credit monitoring services and/or freezing your credit. Most everyone chose the reimbursements. Many people, like me, already have credit monitoring services from other breaches already.
They tried hard to get people to change their claim to free credit monitoring. Almost nobody did. And now everybody gets almost no money. Well, accept the lawyers, and the for profit company providing the credit monitoring.